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25 min ago | www.kua.com | cgent

Energy conservation calendar winners announced

Kissimmee Utility Authority today announced the winners of its 16th annual student calendar art contest.

Open to Osceola County students in kindergarten through fifth grade, the contest is designed to promote energy conservation.

This year, a total of 1,327 entries were received from 21 Osceola County elementary schools, including public, private and charter schools. KUA also received entries from nearly three dozen homeschooled students.

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Related Topix: Kissimmee, FL

3 hrs ago | Salisbury Journal

Henry to compete for theatre awards

Lenny Henry, Rachel Weisz and Juliet Stevenson are among the actors vying for a prestigious Evening Standard Theatre Award, at the ceremony which celebrates the cream of the London stage.

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Related Topix: Animation Movies, Short, Hamlet, Music!, Thriller, Crime Movies, Family, Drama Movies, Secret Diary of a Call Girl, Entertainment, Television

7 hrs ago | The News Item

PPL plans new power line

PPL Electric Utilities announced a project Friday to improve electric service for customers throughout the Susquehanna Valley.

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Related Topix: PPL Corp, Northumberland, PA, Dalmatia, PA, Northumberland County, PA, Richfield, PA

12 hrs ago | Seeking Alpha

CenterPoint and FPL Turning Attention to Louisiana Natural Gas

A subsidiary of CenterPoint Energy Inc. and NextEra US Gas Assets LLC, an affiliate of FPL Group Inc.

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Sun Nov 22, 2009

SABC News

Heritage and Eni close to $1.5 bln Uganda deal

British oil explorer Heritage Oil is in talks to sell its Ugandan assets to Italian oil group Eni SpA for between $1.3-1.5 billion, a person familiar with the matter said today.

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WEBSPHERE Journal

Geospatial Holdings' Subsidiary Enters Into Three Year Contract with...

Did you read today's front page stories & breaking news? SYS-CON.TV View Current Issue Cover Top Microsoft .NET Links From the Wires By: Business Wire Nov.

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Philly.com

Pa. residents sue gas driller over polluted drinking water

Pat Farnelli says there's something in the water at her house. The last time she drank it, she says, she vomited four times.

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Related Topix: Susquehanna County, PA, Cabot Oil and Gas, Oil & Gas, Scranton, PA, Scranton Metro

CKNW News Talk 980

Commodities drag TSX lower as US$ climbs; N.Y. negative on earns disappointments

People using mobile phones walk by a securities firm's electronic board indicating global stock prices in Tokyo.

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Related Topix: Canada, Canadian Natural Resources, Oil & Gas, Financial Markets

The Topeka Capital-Journal

Latin American art fair in the Big Apple

The only art fair in the United States featuring works exclusively from Latin American artists is under way in New York and drawing artists, collectors and museum representatives from around the world to the PINTA art fair.

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Related Topix: US Energy Systems, Entertainment

Sat Nov 21, 2009

Athens Banner-Herald

Astronauts finish another spacewalk, still no baby

A spacewalking astronaut put aside the impending birth of his daughter and blazed through his first-ever venture outside the International Space Station on Saturday.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, NASA, Oil & Gas, Space

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Obama administration pauses on Alaska drilling

The Obama administration has delayed a decision on a request by Shell Oil Co. to drill for oil and gas in Alaska's rugged Chukchi Sea.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, Don Young, Republican, US House of Representatives, Senator Mark Begich, US Senate, Democrat, Lisa Murkowski, Alaska Government, Alaska, Oil & Gas

WLS-TV Chicago

Indiana regulators approve heating assistance

Consumer advocates say they're encouraged by state regulators' decision to allow Indiana utilities to reinstate heating assistance programs for the needy, but the next step is up to the utilities.

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Star Tribune

Nebraska ethanol plant fire produces lawsuit

The owners of a Lexington ethanol plant and their insurer are suing a subsidiary of a Houston-based natural gas provider they say is responsible for an explosion and fire that shut down the plant for weeks.

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Related Topix: Kinder Morgan Management, Financial Services, Oil & Gas, South Carolina

San Diego 6

Nissan Unveils New Electric Car In San Diego

Nissan unveiled its Leaf electric vehicle today at San Diego Gas & Electric's Kearny Mesa headquarters.

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Related Topix: Electric Vehicle, San Diego, CA, San Diego Metro, San Diego County, CA

The Victoria Star

Ontario Power Generation says Q3 profit underpinned by investment returns

Ontario Power Generation Inc. had a $259-million profit in its latest quarter, although the provincial Crown corporation continued to feel the impact of reduced demand for electricity.

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Fri Nov 20, 2009

Abc13.com

Texas high court agrees to rehear Exxon case

The Texas Supreme Court on Friday said it will again hear arguments in the nearly 15-year legal battle over accusations that Exxon Mobil Corp.

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Related Topix: Exxon Mobil, Oil & Gas

PressConnects.com

Pa. residents sue Cabot Oil & Gas over polluted wells

DIMOCK, Pa. -- More than a dozen families have filed suit against one of the nation's largest natural gas drillers after the company polluted their water wells in northeastern Pennsylvania.

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Related Topix: Cabot Oil and Gas, Oil & Gas, Susquehanna County, PA

WNOL-TV New Orleans

Weak demand and rising crude prices lead to another refinery closing; 550 workers let go

Refineries from New Mexico to New Jersey are under severe economic pressure because of falling demand for fuel, with a number of facilities shutting down in recent months.

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Related Topix: Valero Energy, Oil & Gas, Delaware City, DE

The Age

Woodside faces $1bn blow-out in gas project

WOODSIDE Petroleum says costs on its Pluto liquefied natural gas project off Western Australia have blown out by up to $1 billion.

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Related Topix: Oil & Gas, Chevron Corporation

The Macon Telegraph

Economy, ash spill mean no TVA executive bonuses

Tennessee Valley Authority's top executives were told Thursday during a meeting in Kentucky not to expect performance bonuses this year because of a drop in electricity sales due to the poor economy and the massive coal ash spill at the Kingston plant in Tennessee.

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